Is there any Englishman (or Englishwoman) that even comes close to being as loved by Irish people as this guy?

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1. I can think of a lot of english women that I’d loved more

2. Who is that

3. Shane MacGowan

4. Shane McGowan.

5. [deleted]

6. St Patrick

7. Walter Raleigh. Bringer of spuds and bicycles of our youth.

8. Guy Fawkes

9. Like a bit of David Attenborough myself .

10. Super Hans

11. Prince Andrew

12. Tony Cascarino

13. Andy Farrell will probably overtake him if Ireland win the Rugby World Cup.

14. Richard Blackwood

15. We did all love when Thatcher died but that’s probably different.

16. Tom Clarke should be.

17. David gray

18. Rod Stewart

19. All of Oasis.

20. Patrick Pearse

21. No

22. I’m sorry but Jackyboy is an honorary Irishman and isn’t English in my eyes at least.

    Imagine the balls he must have had to go and manage the Irish team, knowing the shit they would give him and yet by the end of it he was the most loved man in the country, and he wasn’t even Irish!

23. Stephen Fry and David Attenborough?

24. I think he did more for Irish English relations than anyone else. Always made me proud to realise what a welcoming society we have in the manner in which we embraced jack.

25. Daniel Day Lewis

26. Chris Tordoff aka The Viper Higgins and many other names

27. Few will have a song by Christy Moore sung about them. Jack Charlton arm and arm.

28. Shane McGowan

29. Guy Fawkes if he got the ending right.

30. Who?

31. How quickly we’ve forgotten about David Gray.

32. Who is he?

33. The Beatles

34. Peter O Toole, he said he was born in Galway but I think it really was in Leeds

35. Lester Piggott got more love from the mammies of Ireland than Jack could dream of.

36. Before his fall from grace, Conor McGregor was the most popular English sport person in Ireland.

37. Boris Johnson is Doing a great job of Irish unification.

38. Phil Lynott, born in West Bromwich.

39. Big jack had an Irish passport, and loved the people, and we loved him,

    In the words of whipping boy

    “We don’t need nobody else..”

40. Michael Caine seems like great craic

    Patrick Stewart has hordes of Trek and Marvel fans

    Bill Bailey sells out shows anytime he’s here – I think we love his surrealist comedy

41. Who is this??

42. Daniel Lewis

43. James Larkin

44. Ed Sheeran.

    Exhibit #1 – This years late late toy show.

    He’s even ginger, practically one of us.

45. Close? None.

    A few decent mentions though are;

    Ken Loach.

    Jeremy Corbyn.

    John Boorman.

46. Roger Casement??

47. A gent ☺️

48. Tbh I’m not sure english people even feel. So how can they love?

49. The Nazi queen, the amount of irish nut jobs that lover her. stockholm syndrome at it’s best